It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

I say that justice is truth in action.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.