Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.