Power ought to serve as a check to power.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions