The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

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.

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

I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.