Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world