When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

A bad peace is even worse than war.