A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you.

It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.