Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

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

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

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