The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.

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

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.