The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

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

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

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

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.