Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.