I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

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

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

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.