With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

Don't expect it to be given to you. It is there already. Get it if you want it.

The greatest riches are life and good health.

Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming?

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

All things living are in search of a better world .

If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But nobody, nobody screws with my dog.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

I think fashion is fashion: Sometimes you dress people that you don't know, and sometimes you dress people that you actually know.

Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.