It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Education is the transformation of civilisation

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.