Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

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

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.