Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Language was invented to ask questions.

By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.

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