There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.

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.

the only revenge worth having is success.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.