Baltasar Gracian

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.