Education is the transmission of civilization.

The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.