The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.