The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.