To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.