Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

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.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.