In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

Evils draw men together.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.

The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.