When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

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

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.