Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

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

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.