It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.