The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.