Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.