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

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

They know enough who know how to learn.