Will Durant

“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”

“Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.”

“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”

“There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.”

“A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.”

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

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”

“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”

“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

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

“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”

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

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”