Society and the World

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

The true University of these days is a collection of books.

The seagreen Incorruptible.

To the very last he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of La carrière ouverte aux talents, The tools to him that can handle them.

To the very last he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of La carrière ouverte aux talents, The tools to him that can handle them.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.

In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport. often quoted as ‘ … I owe to football’

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.

Veni, vidi, vici.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of Man, without his vices.

Eternal spirit of the chainless mind!

The Cincinnatus of the West.

Merely innocent flirtation,

And, after all, what is a lie? ‘Tis but

The mountains look on Marathon—