Morality did not keep well; it required stable conditions; it was costly; it was subject to variations, and the market for it was uncertain.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

The breakdown of our language, evident in the misuse, i.e., the misunderstanding of nouns and adjectives, is most grave, though perhaps not so conspicuous, in the handling of prepositions, those modest little connectives that hold the parts of a phrase or a sentence together. They are the joints of any language, what make it, literally, articulate.

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

In violence, we forget who we are

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.