History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
Ideas control the world.
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.