All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.