We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.

Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.