While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.