When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.