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

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

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

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

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