That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.