The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

There is more in every person's soul than we think.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.