In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.