I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.