The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.