The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.