Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Socialism means slavery.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.