In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.