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

Finance is a slave's word.

The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.