The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #‎ agriculture