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

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.