The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.