Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!

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

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

I only see clearly what I remember.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.