Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere
The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.
It is not from space that I must seek my dignity, but from the government of my thought. I shall have no more if I possess worlds. By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.