We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.

If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.