Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.