He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins.

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.