Words are for those with promises to keep.

To be free is often to be lonely.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.