Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.