A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.