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

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.