No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

The best client is a scared millionaire.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.