It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.