All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.