The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Power should be a check on power.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.