Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

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.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.