When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.

It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

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.