Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.