“More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.”

“One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.”

“To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.”

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

“Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.”

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..”

“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”