The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.