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

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

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

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.