I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
