Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.
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.
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.