Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.