The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.