The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.
Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.