No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.
Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.
The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.