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

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.