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

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

The future never just happened. It was created.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.