A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.