Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

One can repent even of having repented.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.