Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

There may be arrogance – and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.

A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds in convincing all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

The measure of a person's strength is not his muscular power or strength, but it is his flexibility and adaptability.

A wise man altereth his purpose, but a fool persevereth in his folly.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

My opinion is a view I hold until-well-until I find out something that changes it.