Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

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

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.