Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.]

That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.

We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.

Guilty consciences always make people cowards.

Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance.

Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.