Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.