Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.