Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other mens actions, must, as well as their own and other mens actions, be conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

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.