Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.