“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

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

I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!

I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.

They want to be the ones telling people: “This is what we have done in history” but when people begin to say, “No this is what we have done in history” it’s a different thing.

It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.