Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.