The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.