These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

The borrower runs in his own debt.

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.