Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

The less men think, the more they talk.

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.