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

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

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

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.