The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.