Absolute power demoralizes.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.