Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.