Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

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

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.