Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.