To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

Often your face is your autobiography

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

Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.