Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.

When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.