Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.