Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.