Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.