The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.