A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.