Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

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

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.