For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

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.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

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

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

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

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.