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

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.