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.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.