O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.