There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

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.

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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.