Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.