Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. 

Enlightenment is the ultimate destination of the spiritual path.

 No comment is also a comment.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Morality is contraband in war. 

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.