Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
Nothing is new except arrangement.
Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.