Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
“To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes”
“Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.”
“I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”
“Thought is the strongest thing we have.”
“What power is higher than the power of purity?”
“Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.”
“Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.”
“Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.”
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
