"Power is not alluring to pure minds" — Thomas Jefferson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Source: Walden (1854)

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence

Source: Letter to Major General Stirling (Mar. 5, 1780)

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth

Source: Letter to James Madison (Mar. 2, 1788)

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