“The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it.”

“Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.”

“Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.”

“… what makes an object beautiful has nothing to do with its usefulness or its exchange value.”

“The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.”

“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”