Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.