Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.