Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.