Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. ... The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard them from the consequences of their vices.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

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.