Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy