History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. - Alexis de Tocqueville

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme division of labor.