I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

True love can fear no one.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.