So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

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

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.