If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.