The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
It is a great thing to know your vices.
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.