"Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own."

"There are laws for peace as well as war."

"The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom."

"After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain."

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

"To walk the path of enlightenment means the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes."