The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

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

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Power should be a check on power.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.