The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.
Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.
It is higher and nobler to be kind.