An American has no betters, as far as he knows.
Nov 142014
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.
Nov 052014
Civilization has always existed only in enclaves, and whoever would universalize it is its unwitting enemy.
Nov 042014
Ideologies must be classed not by what they intend to build but by what they intend to destroy.
Nov 032014
Hard cases make bad law, and good law makes hard cases.