“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”

“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”

“Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.”

“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.”

“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.”

“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”

“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”

“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.”