“At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.”

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

Official truth is not actual truth.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.

Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.

In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.