Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor.