A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

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

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.