"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."

"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation."

"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."

"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."

"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

"Wisdom principle 92 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 57."

"Wisdom principle 38 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 96."

"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."