There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Above any Greek or Roman name.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

To live thus -- to cram today with eternity and not wait the next day -- the Christian has learnt and continues to learn (for the Christian is always learning) from the Pattern. How did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day -- He who from the first instant of His public life, when He stepped forward as a teacher, knew how His life would end, that the next day was His crucifixion; knew this while the people exultantly hailed Him as King (ah, bitter knowledge to have at precisely that moment!); knew, when they were crying, Hosanna!, at His entry into Jerusalem, that they would cry, "Crucify Him!", and that it was to this end that He made His entry. He who bore every day the prodigious weight of this superhuman knowledge -- how did He manage to live without anxiety for the next day?

The game exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. - Real Presences, 1989.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,

He who slings mud looses ground.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The British tourist was asked what he thought of the Grand Canyon.. and wrote back 'gorge-ous'.