Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

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

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place