Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

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

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

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.

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.