It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.

The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor