Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.