A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.

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.

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

Virtue is necessary to a republic.