Continuous eloquence wearies.

There must be feelings of humility, not from nature, but from penitence, not to rest in them, but to go on to greatness.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new; the arrangement of the subject is new.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain-we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.