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If a man adopt a son, and if after he has taken him he injure his foster father and mother, then this adopted son shall return to his father’s house.

If a man take a woman to wife, but have no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him.

If any one place his property with another for safe keeping, and there, either through thieves or robbers, his property and the property of the other man be lost, the owner of the house, through whose neglect the loss took place, shall compensate the owner for all that was given to him in charge. But the owner of the house shall try to follow up and recover his property, and take it away from the thief.

If any one owe a debt for a loan, and a storm prostrates the grain, or the harvest fail, or the grain does not grow for lack of water; in that year he need not give his creditor any grain, he washes his debt-tablet in water and pays no rent for this year.

If any one find runaway male or female slaves in the open country and bring them to their masters, the master of the slaves shall pay him two shekels of silver.

Before God all men were equal in sin, equally deserving of damnation. If any were raised above the rest in this world, it was God's doing, not theirs.

Before God all men were equal in sin, equally deserving of damnation. If any were raised above the rest in this world, it was God's doing, not theirs.

It may be safely asserted , therefore, that population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical progression of such a nature as to double itself every twenty-five years. This is a statement, of course, refers to the general results, and not to each intermediate step of the progress. Practically, it would sometimes be slower, and sometimes faster.

"Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity"

"... savages will inhabit countries of the greatest natural fertility for a long period before they betake themselves to pasturage or agriculture. Had population and food increased in the same ratio, man might have never emerged from the savage state."

"A capital employed upon land may be unproductive to the individual that employs it and yet be highly productive to the society. A capital employed in trade, on the contrary, may be highly productive to the individual, and yet be almost unproductive to the society"

"These comments on qualities required by a good commanding general are....the avoidance of becoming obsessed by detail, the ability to pick out the essential from non-essential"

"In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It is he alone who can conquer difficulties by his own superior sagacity and courage"

"All real strength is founded in the mind; and on this account I am of the opinion that we should be directed in the choice of a governor less by his genius than his personal character. His most essential qualities should be courage, perseverance, and soldier-like devotedness"

"...it will be found that a retreat will degenerate rapidly into a rout, unless the general-in-chief shall succeed, by combining boldness with skill, and the perseverance with firmness, in restoring the morals of his army"

"It is contrary to all principles to make corps which have no communication act separately, against a central force whose communications are open"

"The first consideration with a general who offers battle should be the glory and honour of his arms. The safety and preservation of his men is only the second"

"A battle is to be sought when there is reason to hope for victory; or when an army runs the risk of being ruined without fighting"

Zero came to India from Greece

"The Greeks had no word for zero"

"Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. And history sufficiently informs us, that the bravest achievements were always accomplished in the non-age of a nation. With the increase of commerce, England hath lost its spirit... The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture."

"Zero begun its career as two wedges pressed into a wet lump of clay"

"The nearer any government approaches to a republic the less business there is for a King"

"It is evident, however, that two nations might increase exactly with the same rapidity in the exchangeable value of annual produce of their land and labour, yet if one had applied itself chiefly to agriculture, and the other chiefly to commerce,... the effect of the increase of wealth in each nation, would be extremely different."

"Models too perfect may sometimes rather impede than promote improvement"

"Even in offensive warfare in the open field the great secret consists in defensive combats, and in obliging the enemy to attack"

"The strength of an army, like the powers of mechanics, is estimated by multiplying the mass and rapidity, a rapid match augments the moral of an army and increases chance of victory"

"it is a useless venture to employ old combat methods under new conditions and a different historical situation" - Lenin

"... the vices and moral weakness of man can never be wholly eradicated"