The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Greatness is its own torment.
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
The most useful is the greatest.