The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.