History is but the polemics of the victor.

Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.