Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
Communism is the opiate of the people.
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.