When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris