I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.
Concentration is the secret of srength.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.