I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

The happy ending is our national belief.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.