Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.