A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

A crowd has the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?