It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.