Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

It is the eye which makes the horizon.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.