It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.