If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.