One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

– Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.

– Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, Chancellor of Sweden (1583-1654); Letter, 1648

“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.”

– Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

To think is to differ.

– Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), during the Scopes Trial, in July 1925

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) From Friendship