Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.