The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.