The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

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

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.