There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.