The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

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.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.