Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.