Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.