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

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

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

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

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