A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Common sense is as rare as genius.
Live in the sunshine.
Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.
All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.