Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

Solemnity is the shield of idiots

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

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

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

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.