Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.