Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
Every cause produces more than one effect.