I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

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.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

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.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers.