Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.