Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities…

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be consi…

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the America…

All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power.

I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

There are few things more exciting to me, in short, than a psychological reason.