To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.