In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

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