If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.