He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.