Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.