"Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms."

"Ready money is Aladdin's lamp."

"I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."

"A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust."

"He who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."

"The only limit to human potential is the true master is an eternal student."

"100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing."