Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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.