Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.