Why should any country continue, forever, to be "great"?

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.