The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.