To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
Every time, I try to make something different.
Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.
O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.
The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy.