One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.