“I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.”
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
