Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

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.

Losing a mate to death is devastating but it's not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it's an insult beyond comparison.

Life can only be as blissful or as miserable as we repeatedly interpret it to be.

Life is terribly awkward and uncomfortable, so we spend our time searching for those who make it all a little less unpleasant.

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Disappointment is like a death! In most cases both are not preplanned. They both come when they will come. Only that the former builds up experiences by the latter stops all form of experiences.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won't understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.