To live is not breathing it is action.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.