A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

To innovate is not to reform.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

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

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.