If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.