My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

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.

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.