History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

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

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

Often your face is your autobiography

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.