America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals