I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.