Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws to any other hands.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

读一本好书，就是和许多高尚的人谈话。