Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

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

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.