One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.
In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.
He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.