When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.

Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.