1. “Advice would be acceptable if it didn’t always conflict with our plans.”
2. “Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.”
3. “Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.”
4. “It has always been desirable to tell the truth, seldom if ever necessary.”
5. “Enthusiasm moves the world.”
6. “There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.”
7. “The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.”
8. “Science preceded the theory of science and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.”
9. “Biography should be written by an acute enemy.”
10. “In politics, nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.”
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