“One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit”

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”

“We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it”

“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property”

“The devil's most devilish when respectable”

“Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy”