If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.