There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.

U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.