The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

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.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

The more you say, the less they remember.