The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

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

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.