Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.