Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.