When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

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

True Relations never break and relation which breaks were never true

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...

Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want

Time made apologies and absolution unnecessary. Time didn't really heal, it just made bad memories distant so that the brain couldn't recapture the lost pain

Woman is the lesser man.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.