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

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.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

Civilization begins with distillation

a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.

All diseases begin in the gut.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

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