Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.