We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

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.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

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

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

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

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

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.