Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.