Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all theabstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called "Sympathetic Nature.