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

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

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.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

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

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

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

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

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

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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