Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
Silence is the mother of truth.
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.