Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.