When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

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

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.