There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.