Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

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.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.