There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.