Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.

Treason is a matter of dates.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

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

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.