The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.