Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.