Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.
Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay:. . . that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.
As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established property, and he loves in them himself, and the labor he has bestowed on them. The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!
We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways to go, all but one bound to be wrong, and the richness of the selection in such situations can lift us onto totally new ground.