Peace is a natural effect of trade.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

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

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.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.