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

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

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.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.