A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.