Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

To love someone is to identify with them.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

We are what we repeatedly do.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Evil draws men together.