Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.