It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

Wine is the divine juice of September.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

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