Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.
I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.
I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.