The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

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.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters.

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.