Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

When you love someone, be sure that you will be loved in return.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

Cheating is a definite no-no. My man has to be all mine or never mind!

How can a you hit and think at the same time?