Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.