Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.

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.

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