Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.