There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.