"[The masses] ... must turn their hopes..." - Quote by Peter Drucker

“The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

“If you want to predict the future create it.”

“The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.”

“...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables”

“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.”

“In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.”

“God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.”

“Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.”