Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

You should never think without an image.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.