Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!