The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.