Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial.

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.