Virtue Is Necessary To A Republic.

Countries Are Not Cultivated In Proportion To Their Fertility, But To Their Liberty.

Love Of Reading Enables A Man To Exchange The Weary Hours, Which Come To Every One, For Hours Of Delight.

Lunch Kills Half Of Paris, Supper The Other Half.

The Spirit Of Commerce Is Frugality, Economy, Moderation, Labor, Ponderance, Tranquillity, Order, And Rule. So Long As This Spirit Subsides, The Riches It Produces Have No Bad Effect. The Mischief Is When Excessive Wealth Destroys The Spirit Of Commerce, Then It Is That The Conveniences Of Inequality... Are Felt.

Power Ought To Serve As A Check To Power.