It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement
You can never plan the future by the past.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
You cannot plan the future by the past.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.