We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.