Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?

The future never just happened. It was created.

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.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.