Robert Grosseteste

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.