Laws Undertake To Punish Only Overt Acts.

Laws, In Their Most General Signification, Are The Necessary Relations Arising From The Nature Of Things. In This Sense All Beings Have Their Laws: The Deity His Laws, The Material World Its Laws, The Intelligences Superior To Man Their Laws, The Beasts Their Laws, Man His Laws.

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.

At Our Coming Into The World We Contract An Immense Debt To Our Country, Which We Can Never Discharge.

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.

Although Born In A Prosperous Realm, We Did Not Believe That Its Boundaries Should Limit Our Knowledge, And That The Lore Of The East Should Alone Enlighten Us.