To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.