The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

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.

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.