Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.