The love of democracy is that of equality.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

There is no crueller tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!

If the triangles were to make a God they would give him three sides.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.