"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."

"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

"It is a timeless truth that to question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"One with the law is a majority."

"We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is."

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."