The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur