Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

I like better for one to say some foolish thing upon important matters than to be silent. That becomes the subject of discussion and dispute, and the truth is discovered.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.