The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

Leaders: Captains of industry.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.