Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.