Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
No.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?