If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

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

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.