Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

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

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

The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.