The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

There is no education like adversity.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Never take anything for granted.

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