Corruption: 'The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.'

Intention: 'The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.'

Corruption: 'Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.'

Poetry: 'The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.'

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. …

These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shre…