Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.