Every feasible technology will be used, and every admitted principle will be exploited.
History is hard to start and impossible to stop.
Collegiality is implacably hostile to independence of mind, and it can be avoided only by not having colleagues.
All things are relative, but some are more relative than others.
You are an ideologue if your views can be inferred from your vocabulary.
Writers can write nonsense without ill effect. It is when readers put up with, then expect, and finally demand it that civilization ends.
Elite political opinion is influential because it is believed to be. When the belief disappears, so does the influence.
You can have nice things, or you can let everybody use them.
Knowing that we are not well, we hastily conclude that we are ill.
To lose one’s money folly used to be enough; today it also requires ambition.