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.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Only the fools are certain and assured.