Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

Communism is the opiate of the people.

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.