No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason

Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.