A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.