Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

Greed has no boundaries

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose