Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.