Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?