The World Wisely Prefers Happiness To Wisdom.

We Are What We Repeatedly Do. Excellence, Then, Is Not An Act, But A Habit.

The Crossroads Of Trade Are The Meeting Place Of Ideas, The Attrition Ground Of Rival Customs And Beliefs; Diversities Beget Conflict, Comparison, Thought; Superstitions Cancel One Another, And Reason Begins.

Education Is A Progressive Discovery Of Our Own Ignorance.

A Great Civilization Is Not Conquered From Without, Until It Has Destroyed Itself From Within. The Essential Causes Of Rome's Decline Lay In Her People, Her Morals, Her Class Struggle, Her Failing Trade, Her Bureaucratic Despotism, Her Stifling Taxes, Her Consuming Wars.

The Trouble With Most People Is That They Think With Their Hopes Or Fears Or Wishes Rather Than With Their Minds.