The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

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

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

And 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.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

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.