What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.