Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.