by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

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