Just as much as we see in others we have in oursel — William Hazlitt

One has no notion of him [William Cobbett] as making use of a fine pen, but a great mutton-fist; his style stuns his readers. . . . He is too much for any single newspaper antagonist; “lays waste” a city orator or Mem… Read more → A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. Zeal will do more than knowledge. Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. Albert Einstein Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume It is better to fall from above the clouds than from the third floor. Machado de Assis The art of government is the organization of idolatry. George Bernard Shaw