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!

To live is not breathing it is action.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.