Trust your heart rather than your head.

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

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!

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

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

One can buy anything with money except morality.