We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.