If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie. - Bertrand Russell

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.