It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.