Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

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.

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.