In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.

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.

Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.