Virtue Is Necessary To A Republic.

One More Organ Or One Less In Our Body Would Give Us A Different Intelligence. In Fact, All The Established Laws As To Why Our Body Is A Certain Way Would Be Different If Our Body Were Not That Way.

Vanity Is As Advantageous To A Government As Pride Is Dangerous. To Be Convinced Of This We Need Only Represent, On The One Hand,the Numberless Benefits Which Result From Vanity, As Industry, The Arts, Fashions, Politeness, And Taste; And On The Other, The Infinite Evils Which Spring From The Pride Of Certain Nations, A Laziness, Poverty, A Total Neglect Of Everything.

The Culminating Point Of Administration Is To Know Well How Much Power, Great Or Small, We Ought To Use In All Circumstances.

Democracy Has Two Excesses To Avoid: The Spirit Of Inequality, Which Leads To An Aristocracy, Or To The Government Of A Single Individual; And The Spirit Of Extreme Equality, Which Conducts It To Despotism, As The Despotism Of A Single Individual Finishes By Conquest.

There Is No One, Says Another, Whom Fortune Does Not Visit Once In His Life; But When She Does Not Find Him Ready To Receive Her, She Walks In At The Door, And Flies Out At The Window.