Very Good Laws May Be Ill Timed.

Talent Is A Gift Which God Has Given Us Secretly, And Which We Reveal Without Perceiving It.

Honor Sets All The Parts Of The Body Politic In Motion, And By Its Very Action Connects Them; Thus Each Individual Advances The Public Good, While He Only Thinks Of Promoting His Own Interest.

A Good Writer Does Not Write As People Write, But As He Writes.

It Is Requisite The Government Be So Constituted As One Man Need Not Be Afraid Of Another.

Men In Excess Of Happiness Or Misery Are Equally Inclined To Severity. Witness Conquerors And Monks! It Is Mediocrity Alone, And A Mixture Of Prosperous And Adverse Fortune That Inspire Us With Lenity And Pity.