No one ever dies an atheist.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.