A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
Will DurantFrom barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will DurantWherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
Will DurantPerhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
Will DurantAnd last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
Will Durant