Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.