Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

Solemnity is the shield of idiots

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.