In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.

Beware the sleeping dragon. For when she awakes the Earth will shake [On China].

It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly.

Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. - The Books in My Life.