Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child