News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

London is a modern Babylon.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.