The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

The many become one and are increased by one.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.