Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians?