Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.