History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.