One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

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

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

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

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