Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.