The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Europe is a state with several provinces

The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.