There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.