Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

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

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.