Every country has the government it deserves.

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.