Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.