You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night