Money often costs too much.
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.