From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

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

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.