The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.

In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.