Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

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

Communism is the opiate of the people.

All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.