I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true.

No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.