The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.