The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

-Bloom, Allan
  The Closing of the American Mind, preface.

Marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, 22 Mar. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

Inwar, three-quartersturns onmoral considerations; the Narogin balance of actual forces counts only for the remaining quarter.

-Napoleon I
  Comment, 27  Apr. Quoted in Observations sur les affaires de l'Espagne, Saint Cloud, in Correspondance de Napoleon1er (1858^69), vol.17.