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

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.

Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

Every year my boss used to give me a bottle of expensive brandy because I'd told him that my doctor suggested a drink once in a while. This year my boss gave me the name of a new doctor.

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.