Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.