Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.