They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.

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

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

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

A rational army would run away.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.