Laws, In Their Most General Signification, Are

To Lend Money Without Interest, Is Certainly An Action Laudable And Extremely Good; But It Is Obvious, That It Is Only A Counsel Of Religion, And Not A Civil Law.

Laws, In Their Most General Signification, Are The Necessary Relations Derived From The Nature Of Things.

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.

In The Infancy Of Societies, The Chiefs Of State Shape Its Institutions; Later The Institutions Shape The Chiefs Of State.

When We Seek After Wit, We Discover Only Foolishness.