Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.