The first trick every utterly unreasonable person masters is a calm and reasonable appearance.
Nov 192014
Nov 182014
Better a handout than a sermon, and better neither than both.
Nov 172014
Working on an easy task when you are capable of a hard one is a particularly insidious form of procrastination.
Nov 142014
An American has no betters, as far as he knows.
Nov 132014
A career is tolerable only in retrospect.
Nov 122014
The business of America is busyness.
Nov 112014
Irony is the last vestige of aristocracy.
Nov 102014
The two great metaphors for society in political philosophy have been machine and organism: thus the two for the individual have been cog and cell.
Nov 072014
History is not progress; yet without the idea of progress there can be no history.
Nov 062014
Beauty that does not in some way modify your standards for beauty is kitsch.