Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

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

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.