Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.