The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.