Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.

A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.