If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will DurantThere is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
Will DurantHistory is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
Will DurantAnd last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
Will Durant