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

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

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

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.