In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

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.

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

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

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.