We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.