Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

Don't worry about things you cannot alter

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

Your wits make others witty.

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.