You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent