If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.