No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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

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

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.