The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

There is no college for the conscience.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.