Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

All thingsat first appear difficult.