You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and John were permitted to see Him in His glory. For that brief while they had no need of faith. The vision vanished, and the memory of it did not prevent them from all forsaking Him when He was arrested, or Peter from denying that he had ever known Him.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.