Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.