Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.