Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.