In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

If you would know and not be known live in a city.

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.

Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it ever burned before? Is my baby flame retardant?'

You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough to suit me.

Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

My kids and my wife make me feel vulnerable.

Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.

Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.