 How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. |
| Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. |
| Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. |
| It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. |
| He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. |
| Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. |
| Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. |
| Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. |
| It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. |
| All styles are good except the tiresome kind. |
| God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. |
| Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. |
| Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. |
| The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. |
| It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow. |
| We cannot wish for that we know not. |
| The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. |
| Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. |
| In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. |
| Illusion is the first of all pleasures. |
