He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

Civilization depends on morality.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

Our thinking is a pious reception.

A nation never falls but by suicide.