Saint Augustine

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.