The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

Depression is rage spread thin.