Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

Love is a grave mental illness.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

A work well begun is half-ended.