“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”

“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him”

“Ambition and suspicion always go together”

“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.”

“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided”

“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”