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

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries - as a matter of fact, it was vastly less reasonable than many of them - but because it was far more poetical.