We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.