No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.