“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”

“Who, to say nothing about the perils of an awful and unknown sea, would have left Asia or Africa or Italy to look for Germany?”

“It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.”

“To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.”

“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”