When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

True liberty comes from education, knowledge, and wisdom.

Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.

Harm seek, harm find.

I want to gag sometimes when I see who "we" are recommending that people vote for, and not just as a libertarian.

It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country.

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.