Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to...
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor and that he has never known trouble.