America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.