Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

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

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.