An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

The less men think, the more they talk.