The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

Fate loves the fearless.