He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.