Inequality, like many supposed problems, is not a problem at all: it is a condition.
Lower pleasures are never quite as sharp the second time: they depend on surprise.
If you don’t have anything nice to say, use an agreeable tone of voice.
What the machine can do, we need not; and if we need not, soon we cannot.
The purveyor of a cure does not, unless he is a madman, spread the ill; but he can scarcely help spreading belief in it.
That warm, fuzzy feeling when you know you have done right? Nothing is to be trusted less.
For heresy, like murder, there is no statute of limitations — not even centuries.
You can’t convince people that ugliness is beautiful. You can, however, convince them that it is bold, inspiring, visionary, unique, searching, thought-provoking, evocative, and unconventional.
School inculcates the bad habit of finishing books, as if they were assignments.
Never use five words where none will do.