Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.