Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will."

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."

"Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players."