Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.