Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.
The woman who needs to be liberated most is the woman in every man, and the man who needs to be liberated most is the man in every woman
It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.
It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it.
The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools