It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.