Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

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.

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.