Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.