What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.