In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

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.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.