The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
The future never just happened. It was created.
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.