Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.