The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.