Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Genius is a long impatience.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.