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- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
- Jacques Bossuet (1627 - 1704)
- The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
- Paul De Gondi
- Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
- The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
- Bourke Cockran
- We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
- Henry Brougham (1778 - 1868)
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