The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

We normally know we're getting older when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel.

Everything is falling into place.

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.