Power ought to serve as a check to power.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

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.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.