For those who flatter us we have many nasty names, but never liar.
Jun 282019
Jun 272019
Pleasure lies chiefly in anticipation and retrospection, the experience itself being necessary to ensure that neither is spoiled.
Jun 262019
A bureaucracy, like a garage, should be hosed down periodically, to dislodge the stray bits of power accumulating in its crevices and corners like dust and dirt.
Jun 252019
Discursive prose was a brief and happy interlude in human history: at the beginning were drums and chants, and so it shall be at the end.
Jun 242019
The idea that smoke implies fire cannot survive a professional class of industrious smoke merchants.
Jun 212019
A lot of people who don’t believe in God believe in Santa Claus.
Jun 202019
Bad people are a fertile and oft-neglected source of good ideas.
Jun 192019
Popular sovereignty democratizes everything but rule.
Jun 182019
Many famous and respectable men feel imprisoned by their reputation, and now and then one will say or do something to sabotage it, as a bear will gnaw off its leg to get out of a trap.
Jun 172019
It is natural to demand special consideration for your feelings if you can’t think.