Man is God by his faculty for thought.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

The greatness of a popular character is less according to the ratio of his genius than the sympathy he shows with the prejudices and even the absurdities of his time. Fanatics do not select the cleverest but the most fanatical leaders as was evidenced in the choice of Robespierre by the French Jacobins, and in that of Cromwell by the English Puritans.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.