"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

"Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision."

"The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart."

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."

"Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."

"The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward."

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."