The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.