If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

I am not the river I am the net.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.