To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.