One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
