Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

The less men think, the more they talk.