The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.