“Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.”

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

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.

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

The connection we have is something special. We know each other since we were in the womb! You can’t get any closer then that

I think the industry finally gets it. They’ve lost the connection with the American public, and they’ve got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we’d made a connection.

I guess at it’s very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you were lucky enough to experience it.

Paloma you cry out, you beg for connection The dreams you seek are straight ahead in every direction

There should be a connection between a man’s hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.