We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.
A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Architects cannot teach nature anything.
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.