Democracy is a danger to any powerful group.
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.