"We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business"
"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"