Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.