Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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!

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.