A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.