The simplification of anything is always sensational.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.