The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.