James Bryce

“The tendency of the multitude in all countries is to follow the track which others have beaten.”

“To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.”

“Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”

“Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.”

“The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.”

“What the Romans were to the ancient world, the English have been to the modern.”

“In the multitude of counsel there is safety.”

“It is better to adopt a plan than to put off deciding.”

“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”

“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”

“The government of the world is a great affair; but a little corner of our own garden is also a great affair.”

“No government demands so much from the citizen as democracy, and none gives so much back.”

“The one sure way to make a man worthy of love is to love him.”

“It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them.”

“One of the youngest of the nations, America is also the oldest of the republics.”