Very good laws may be ill timed.
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.