The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Anyhow, the hole in the donut is at least digestible.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.