A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

[Referring to FDR] If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.