The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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.

The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.