Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

Live now, die later!

What's a wingding? Why, a wingding is, uh...it's just like a shindig but without all the hullabaloo.

If you fill the atmosphere with toxins, then you really cannot be surprised if the solar radiation transmission through it becomes toxic to humans.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Language communicates in terms of what is already know

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.