You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.