"Let the punishment match the offense."

"It is a true saying that 'One falsehood leads easily to another'."

"Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

"What a time! What a civilization!"

"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?"

"ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity."

"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."

"Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good."

"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."

"TWICE, adv. Once too often."