Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.