It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

Why do men go to zoos?

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.