The world is the house of the strong.

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

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

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