Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.