Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

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

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

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.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.