All socialism involves slavery.

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.