Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.