Law should be like death, which spares no one.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.