Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.