The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

He travels best that knows when to return.

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.