The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
The bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by god on the children of men. It has god for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. it is all pure
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.
What's done is yet to come.
A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
This was a manuscript of the night we couldn't read" - sal paradise, on the road.
Everything fell apart in me. How are things with you?
The sparrow hops along the veranda, with wet feet.
We understood each other on other levels of madness.
I was going to grow up to walk in sleet in fields...
That was the way dean found me when he finally decided i was worth saving.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Every man has a property in his own person. this nobody has a right to, but himself.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; a villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
all wealth is the product of labor