You have to study a great deal to know a little.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.