Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.