In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.