💬 Quotes

"Then comes the summer—and over the steaming earth the sun flings his beams to scorch and bake, and behold, the desert, but lately green and beautiful, is a crisped and blackened thing."

"My father was a justice of the peace, and I supposed he possessed the power of life and death over all men and could hang anybody that offended him."

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."

"We were fighting for a freedom so simple and obvious that it was a shame to have to fight for it; but the realization of it was as hard as the earth beneath our feet."

"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."

"To desire and to strive are two distinct things; and he who does not understand this difference remains a child in understanding."

"Bedouin ways were drawn from the desert, where unpredictability was the only rule, and men lived on the edge of survival through sheer endurance and wit."

"I came to know that ideals are like stars; you will not touch them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"A man is wise in proportion as he knows his own ignorance."

"Philosophy is not a trick of the tongue, but of the heart."

"Faith must be trampled under foot, that we may be able to see the loftiness of the divine heights when we are upright."

"Intellect is a light, the will a heat; and we shall find that there is no intellect so dull that it has not a little fire left in it."

"It is evident, then, that it is easier for a man to rule any other creature than to rule human beings."

"Those who wish to be secure do not bolt their doors against their friends, but keep them open by acts of kindness."

"No man is fit to command who is not wiser than those who obey."

"He who desires to be praised by many must submit to the hatred of many."

"Abundance of things causes satiety, satiety begets contempt, and contempt brings forth trouble."