I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.