No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.