Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.