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

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

The less men think, the more they talk.