There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Peu de bipedes depuis Adam ont merite le nom d'homme.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line B…