The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

The moderns do not realize modernity.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.