If You Run After Wit,

Human Laws Made To Direct The Will Ought To Give Precepts, And Not Counsels.

With Truths Of A Certain Kind, It Is Not Enough To Make Them Appear Convincing: One Must Also Make Them Felt. Of Such Kind Are Moral Truths.

The Christian Religion Is A Stranger To Mere Despotic Power. The Mildness So Frequently Recommended In The Gospel Is Incompatible With The Despotic Rage.

Not To Be Loved Is A Misfortune, But It Is An Insult To Be Loved No Longer.

It Is Necessary From The Very Nature Of Things That Power Should Be A Check To Power.