“The more liberty you give away the more you will have.”

“What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”

“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”

“We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot...”

“Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a v...”

“A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell...”

“Tomorrow is no man's gift.”

“A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.”

“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and hi...”

“The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.”

“Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreck...”

“Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.”