Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.