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

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.