Good And Evil Lie Close

Guard Against The Prestige Of Great Names; See That Your Judgments Are Your Own; And Do Not Shrink From Disagreement; No Trusting Without Testing

Authority That Does Not Exist For Liberty Is Not Authority But Force.

If Some Great Catastrophe Is Not Announced Every Morning, We Feel A Certain Void. Nothing In The Paper Today, We Sigh.

Many Things Are Better For Silence Than For Speech: Others Are Better For Speech Than For Stationery.

Power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men, Even When They Exercise Influence And Not Authority: Still More When You Superadd The Tendency Or The Certainty Of Corruption By Authority.