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Principle III:;: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

Art is life, plus caprice.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Without good-will, no man has any presumptive right, except the right or opportunity to change his will, so long as there is hope of it.

We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.

Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.