"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." — Thomas Carlyle

Every noble work is at first impossible.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.