What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting