When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public
property.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities.
Language is the dress of thought.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally
determined to some particular direction.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the
few who are rich.
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is
alive.
Two things are identical if one can be substituted for the other without
affecting the truth.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it
but the scratching of a pen.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mercury.
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