No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

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.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.