Quote #2097
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Quote #18454
It’s hard to be nostalgic when you can’t remember anything.
Quote #1018
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Quote #14243
A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and...
Quote #4753
That government is best which governs least. – from Civil Disobedience
Quote #21478
I am never afraid of what I know.
Quote #14373
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature...
Quote #12499
Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
Quote #8864
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Quote #18979
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the...