Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.