Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

The future is for everyone, not far, it's just tomorrow.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

I think I'm going to be around awhile.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

You can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

Justice has long arm.

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth