The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

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

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