The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.