I Shall Be Obliged To Wander To

They Who Love To Inform Themselves, Are Never Idle. Though I Have No Business Of Consequence To Take Care Of, I Am Nevertheless Continually Employed. I Spend My Life In Examining Things: I Write Down In The Evening Whatever I Have Remarked, What I Have Seen, And What I Have Heard In The Day: Every Thing Engages My Attention, And Every Thing Excites My Wonder: I Am Like An Infant, Whose Organs, As Yet Tender, Are Strongly Affected By The Slightest Objects.

A Prince Who Loves And Fears Religion Is A Lion Who Stoops To The Hand That Strokes Or To The Voice That Appeases Him. He Who Fears And Hates Religion Is Like The Savage Beast That Growls And Bites The Chain, Which Prevents His Flying On The Passenger. He Who Has No Religion At All Is That Terrible Animal Who Perceives His Liberty Only When He Tears In Pieces, And When He Devours.

Great Commanders Write Their Actions With Simplicity; Because They Receive More Glory From Facts Than From Words.

What Cowardice It Is To Be Dismayed By The Happiness Of Others And Devastated By There Good Fortune.

But Constant Experience Shows Us That Every Man Invested With Power Is Apt To Abuse It, And To Carry His Authority As Far As It Will Go.