To myself I am only a child playing on the beach while vast oceans of truth...
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction...
If I have done the public any service it is due to my patient thought.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then...
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
