The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love.

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

I was so shocked when Donald Trump publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans. That is just unacceptable.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

You can and must understand computers now.