Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.