Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.
The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.