Falsehood is for a season.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Consult duty not events.
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.