The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.