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

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.