Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

Europe is a state with several provinces

Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

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

Solemnity is the shield of idiots