No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.