No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.