It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

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.