Nothing is new except arrangement.

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

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

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.