But if you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable nowdays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is metaphysics.

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, beca

America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

A sinking ship gathers no moss.