William McKinley has surely been underrated - in no small part because he was succeeded by a memorable leader, Theodore Roosevelt.
Reputation is the road to power
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.
The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of.
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.
I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.