Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

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

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

The more you have, the more people want to use you and damage you.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

I really doubt whether evolution ever works, how then come Mothers have only two hands

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.