The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.