“Knowing exactly how much of the future can be introduced into the present is the secret of great government.” — Victor Hugo

“He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.” — Cato

“Ignorance is bold, and knowledge is reserved.” — Thucydides

“When we have provided against cold, hunger and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.” — Seneca

“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music, or pictures, or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” — Samuel Butler

“The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf. It’s almost a law.” — H.G. Wells

“Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.” — Daniel Boorstin