Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

God sends the cold according to the coat.

I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.