All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.