Covenants without swords are but words.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.