Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.