The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.