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

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.