Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.