Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

Make sure that you are fully aware of the work environment which will suit your ‘work style’ the best.

When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.

Programmers are as emotional and irrational as normal people

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness

A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.