You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

What worries you, masters you.

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.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

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.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Revolt is the right of the people

If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us

I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out.

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

The more broadband we can get globally, the better. It's better for the world; it's better for our advertisers; it's better for Google.

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.