Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.