Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

A rational army would run away.

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.