If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

America wants its respect.

You do ill if you praise but worse if you censure what you do not understand.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand, I teach in order to learn.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Observe all men, thyself most.

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