The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.