There appears to be irrefutable evidence that the mere fact of overcrowding induces violence.

Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.)

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

Well, we'll really have a party, but we've gotta post a guard outside.

The most delightful day after the one on which you buy a cottage in the country is the one on which you resell it.

Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want.

Then, gently touching my face, she hesitated for a moment as her incredible eyes poured forth into mine love, joy, pain, tragedy, acceptance, and peace. "'Bye for now," she said warmly.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?

Uppers are no longer stylish, methedrine is almost as rare as pure acid or DMT. "Consciousness Expansion" went out with LBJ and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon.

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose, for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

"Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex." (Where there is no police, there is no speed limit.)

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Steady movement is more important than speed, much of the time. So long as there is a regular progression of stimuli to get your mental hooks into, there is room for lateral movement. Once this begins, its rate is a matter of discretion.

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered down enough so people can afford to pay 'em.

You get what you pay for.

In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

They will only cause the lower classes to move about needlessly.