The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

I like people who like Plato.