There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

Every ist writes his own autobiography.

Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.