Better is the enemy of good.
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Injustice in the end produces independence.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
