It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

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

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.