This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

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 the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.