I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

The highest qualities of character...must be earned.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.

Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.