You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

All children are essentially criminal.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

The bad gives rise to the good, the good inspires the better, the better produces the excellent, the excellent is followed by the bizarre

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.