The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato