“Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.”

“Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.”

“All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.”

“For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.”

“Better to illuminate than merely to shine.”

“To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.”

“The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.”

“It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.”