Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.