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

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.