When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.