The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.