A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

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