It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.