The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

Only peace between equals can last.