The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.