Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

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.