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

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

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

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.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

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