The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Common sense is genius in homespun.