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

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

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

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