A person of genius should marry a person of character.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.