We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.