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.

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.

The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.