Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

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

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

The future never just happened. It was created.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.