Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them