No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.