Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

Wife: a former sweetheart.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.