“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs”

“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”

“Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power”

“One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”