» The king is the man who can.
» What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
» Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
» Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
» Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
» No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
» Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
» The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
» All great peoples are conservative.
» Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.