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

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

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.