In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

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.

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

Trade is the best cure for prejudice.