"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."

"Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent."

"If I cannot reform with equity, I will not reform at all."

"A great empire and little minds go ill together."

"The true politician, when he is called to the helm of a state, is to know how to preserve it from the storms, and not to expose it to them."