Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

What we wish, that we readily believe.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.