The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.
The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.
An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.