Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.
Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools.
Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.