Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

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

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.