I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen only if superior men are given absolute freedom to think what they want to think and say what they want to say. I am against any man and any organization which seeks to limit or deny that freedom ... the superior man can be sure of freedom only if it is given to all men.

I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.

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

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.