The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.