Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.