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

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.