Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

What worries you, masters you.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

You are my star in this dark, dark world that we inhabit.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.

My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.

It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Stick to your instincts.

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.