Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

We are born poets. we become orators.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.