A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.