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

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

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.