He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?