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• Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
  William Hazli...
• In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superio
  since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards....
• No one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one.
  ... Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of....
• Does a man speak foolishly?-suffer him gladly, for you are wise.
  Does he speak erroneously?-stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid....
• He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
  -- French philosopher Charles Peguy...
• A truly wise person knows that he knows not.
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...
• He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy
  But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. -- William Blake...
• The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act v, Sc. 1...